# Spring Landscape

- By: Kano Tan'yu 狩野探幽 (1602-1674)
- Date: 1672
- Medium: Ink and color on silk
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: H x W (image): 82.5 x 37.7 cm (32 1/2 x 14 13/16 in)
- Culture: Japanese
- Credit line: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://asia.si.edu/object/F1892.28a-c/)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/380f62d7765281bd346379c5cb4bfc49.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

A Japanese landscape of rolling hills and blossoming cherry trees suggests the mountainous scenery of Yoshino, a district near Nara famous for its spring scenery. Among Kano Tanyu's numerous paintings are many that reflect his interest in the traditional styles and subjects of Japanese painting (yamato-e). His signature on this painting includes his age of seventy-one years (seventy by Western custom), and his honorific title, hoin (seal of the \[Buddhist\] Law), which was conferred on him ten years earlier, in 1662.